green spaces are known to improve health and wellbeing, and for many people gardens have been a real help during the pandemic. and it seems the uk is getting greener. the royal horticultural society says a0 square miles of new trees, flowers and grass has been created across the uk over the last five years. tim muffett reports. that garden has got me through what has been a really challenging three years. when camilla added plants to herfront garden in sheffield, the effects were far reaching. four years ago, my front garden was in really bad shape, so had been used pretty much as a builder s yard. and at the same time, my mum was diagnosed with cancer so we had a pretty rough time as a family. being able to go outside and just make everything a little bit better, i think was one of the few things i could do at that time. the uk s front gardens are getting greener, according to the royal horticultural society. its research suggests that plant cover has increased by almost a0
we test drive the continent s fastest and highest ride. watch some masterpiece maintenance in the netherlands. it looks incredible. yeah. 0h, here we go again. and travel back in time over 2000 years as wejoin the crew of a replica galley in greece. hello, and welcome to the travel show, coming to you from a very chilly st pancras station. now normally, this place would be bustling with people going back and forth from the uk to the continent on the eurostar. pre pandemic, it was carrying around 11 million passengers every year between britain and mainland europe but that number has dropped by 95% since last march and today, i can only see two outbound trains on the board. unfortunately, i m not catching a train today as we are still under lockdown but that isn t going to stop us from looking back at some of our favourite european trips. we begin with christa s trip to france in 2018, marking the 70th anniversary of one of the country s most iconic cars the citroen 2cv.
our health correspondent, katharine da costa, reports. like all secondary schools in england, these pupils in london are getting three rapid covid tests in school followed by two home tests a week, but while tests taken at home could be backed up with a standard lab based pcr test, under government policy that won t be happening in schools. but lateral flow tests aren t as accurate. public health england suggests that for every thousand carried out, between one and three will give a an incorrect positive result, a so called false positive. and with around 3.4 million state secondary school pupils in england, the number of inaccurate tests could run into many thousands. richard patton s son had a positive lateral flow test result on wednesday. his school told him to take a pcr test, which came back negative, but richard says nhs test and trace said the family still needed to isolate for 10 days. it has affected my two kids because they can t go to school. it has affected my wi
hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the british iranian woman nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, imprisoned in iran, has had her ankle tag removed after her sentence came to an end. however, a new court case against her has been scheduled for next week. the prime minister has defended the government s 1% pay rise for the nhs during a visit to a vaccine centre in north london. there has been a public sector pay freeze. we are in tough times. we have tried to give the nhs as much as we possibly can. schools in england are reopening to all pupils tomorrow. borisjohnson describes it as the first step in moving closer to normality. on the third day of his historic trip to iraq, pope francis visits a church in the northern town of qaraqosh, which was devastated by islamic state militants. the royal family marks commonwealth dayjust hours before the duke and duchess of sussex s interview with oprah winfrey. now on bbc news, ade adepitan looks back at some of the travel show s top europe
financial turmoil. during those final years, celtic capitalised. in 2018, steven gerrard took over, guiding them to their 55th title and his first as a manager. we have waited a long time for this. absolutely delighted for myself and every rangers fan. all players all over the world. it is a big moment. we are right at the top, and we are going to enjoy every single minute of it. we are champions. it has been one fantasticjourney. just feel grateful. the best is still to come, i think. winning so early in the season has many benefits. rangers very next match is at celtic park where they will be welcomed as champions of scotland. now it s time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. the weather s been fine and settled, albeit rather cold over the time of year this weekend. and as we start the new week, we should stay fine, certainly monday and tuesday, before things really change mid week onwards. a powerfuljet is going to spin up some very deep areas of low p